When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

  • -- Leif Enger 作者

一个人死后,大地一般不愿把他咳回去。奇迹与地球的意志相矛盾。

相关名言

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

我开始写作的时候,只是做一些与写作相关的小事情,而不是写作本身。我不知道怎么写小说。所以我做新闻是因为我可以学到一些规则。你可以教别人写新闻故事。他们可能写得不好,但你可以很容易地教他们。

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

我喜欢模糊事实和虚构之间的界限,但又不愿屈尊于读者,让他们陷入某种后现代主义的牢笼。